Recollections of Early Texas (36 page)

Fisher, Orceneth Asbury. Journal. Property of Jesse N. Fisher, Box 1298, Flagstaff, Arizona.

General Services Administration. National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D.C.

Grandrud, Pauline, and Kathleen Paul Jones. Alabama Records Survey. Archives Division, Alabama State Library.

Kemp, L. W. Harrisburg Roll. Archives Collection, Texas State Library.

        
. San Jacinto Roll. Archives Collection, Texas State Library.

        
. Monuments to Texas Veterans. Archives Collection, Texas State Library.

List of Civil and Military Appointments for Alabama Territory by Gov. Holmes, 1818. Archives Division, Alabama State Library.

McDowall, Mary Ann. “A Little Journey Through Memory's Halls,” Historical Society, Bastrop, Texas.

Minutes of the Commissioner's Court. Bastrop County, Office of County Clerk.

Minutes of the Corporation of the City of Bastrop, 1837–1858. Transcript, Historical Society, Bastrop, Texas.

Muster Roll Book. Transcript, General Land Office, Austin, Texas.

Police Court Records. Bastrop County, Office of County Clerk.

Probate Minutes. Bastrop County, Office of County Clerk.

Probate Records. Bastrop County, Office of County Clerk.

Probate Records. Travis County, Office of County Clerk.

Register of Spanish Archives. General Land Office, Austin, Texas.

Smith, Ashbel. Papers, 1838. Archives Collection, University of Texas Library.

Travis, William B. Diary. Archives Collection, University of Texas Library.

U.S. Census,
1850, 1860. Transcript, Archives Collection, University of Texas Library.

Williamson, R. M. Biographical File. Archives Collection, University of Texas Library.

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Books

Baker, D. W. C.
A Texas Scrapbook, Made Up of the History, Biography, and Miscellany of Texas and Its People.
New Orleans, A. S. Barnes & Co., 1875.

Bancroft, Hubert Howe.
History of Mexico.
New York, Bancroft Co., n.d. 6 vols.

Barker, E. C. (ed.).
The Austin Papers.
Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924, 1928; Austin, University of Texas Press, 1927. 3 vols.

Bastrop Historical Society.
In the Shadow of the Lost Pines, A History of Bastrop County and Its People.
Bastrop, Texas, Bastrop
Advertiser,
1955.

Bedichek, Roy.
Karankaway Country.
Garden City, Doubleday & Co., 1950.

Biographical Directory of Texas Conventions and Congresses,
Austin, 1941.

Brown, John Henry.
History of Texas from 1685 to 1892.
St. Louis, Bectold & Co., 1892. 2 vols.

        
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Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas.
Austin, L. E. Daniell, n.d.

Burlage. John, and J. B. Hollingsworth (eds.).
Abstract of Valid Land Claims Compiled from the Records of the General Land Office and Court of Claims of the State of Texas.
Austin, John Marshall & Co., 1859.

Burleson, Georgia Jenkins.
The Life and Writings of Rufus C. Burleson, D.D., L.L.D.
Privately printed, 1901.

Carroll, H. Bailey.
The Texan Santa Fe Trail.
Canyon, Texas, Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, 1951.

Carter, Clarence.
Territorial Papers of the United States, Territory of Alabama, 1817–1819.
Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952.

Chabot, Frederick C. (ed.).
The Perote Prisoners, Being the Diary of James L. Truehart.
San Antonio, Naylor Company, 1934.

Clark, Joseph L.
A History of Texas, Land of Promise.
Dallas, D. C. Heath and Company, 1939.

DeShields, James T.
Border Wars of Texas.
Tioga, Texas, Herald Co., 1912.

        
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Tall Men with Long Rifles.
San Antonio, Naylor Co., 1935.

Dixon, Sam Houston, and L. W. Kemp.
The Heroes of San Jacinto.
Houston, Anson Jones Press, 1932.

Dobie, J. Frank,
John C. Duval, First Texas Man of Letters.
Dallas, Southwest Review, 1939.

        
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Tales of Old-Time Texas.
Boston and Toronto, Little, Brown & Co., 1955.

Evans, Clement (ed.).
Confederate Military History.
Atlanta, Confederate Publishing Co., 1899. 12 vols.

Fisher, O. C.
It Occurred in Kimble.
Houston, Anson Jones Press, 1937.

Frantz, Joe B.
Gail Borden, Dairyman to a Nation.
Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1951.

Gammel, H. P. N.
The Laws of Texas, 1822–1897.
Austin, The Gammel Book Co., 1898. 8 vols.

Green, Rena (ed.).
The Swisher Memoirs.
San Antonio, Sigmond Press, 1932.

Green, Gen. Thomas J.
Journal of the Texian Expedition Against Mier.
New York, Harper & Brothers, 1845.

Gulick, Charles, and Katherine Elliot, Winnie Allen, and Harriet Smither (eds.).
The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar.
Austin, Texas State Library and Historical Commission, 1940–1945. 6 vols.

Haley, J. Evetts.
Fort Concho and the Texas Frontier.
San Angelo, San Angelo
Standard-Times,
1952.

Hartley, Oliver C. (reporter).
Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Texas.
Galveston, Civilian Book Office; St. Louis, Gilbert Book Co., various dates. 19 vols.

Henderson, Harry M.
Colonel Jack Hays, Texas Ranger.
San Antonio, Naylor Company, 1954.

Houston, Andrew Jackson.
Texas Independence.
Houston, Anson Jones Press, 1938.

James, Marquis.
The Raven, a Biography of Sam Houston.
New York, Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., 1929.

Johnston, William Preston.
The Life of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston.
New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1878.

Jones, Margaret Belle.
Bastrop.
Bastrop, Texas, Bastrop
Advertiser,
1936. (pamphlet).

Journal of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas, Fifth Congress, First Session, 1840–1841.
Austin, 1841.

Journals of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas, Seventh Congress, 1842–1843.
Houston, 1843.

Kemp, L. W.
Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence.
Houston, Anson Jones Press, 1944.

Kendall, George Wilkins.
Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition.
New York, 1844; Austin, The Steck Company, 1936.

Lewis Publishing Company.
History of Texas Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties.
Chicago, 1893. 12 vols.

        
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Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas.
Chicago and New York, 1907. 2 vols.

Linn, John J.
Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas.
New York, Sadler & Co., 1883; Austin, The Steck Company, 1936.

McConnell, Joseph Carroll.
The West Texas Frontier.
Palo Pinto, Texas, Texas Legal Bank and Book Co., 1939. 2 vols.

Monuments Erected . . . to Commemorate the Centenary of Texas Independence.
Austin, The Steck Company, 1939.

Morrell, Z. N.
Fruits and Flowers from the Wilderness.
Boston, Gould & Lincoln, 1872.

Pickrell, Anne Doom.
Pioneer Women in Texas.
Austin, The Steck Company, 1929.

Ray, Worth S.
Austin Colony Pioneers.
Austin, Published by Author, 1949.

Red, William Stuart.
The Texas Colonists and Religion, 1821–1836.
Austin, E. L. Shettles, 1924.

Richardson, Rupert.
Texas, the Lone Star State.
New York, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1943.

Robinson, Duncan W.
Judge Robert McAlpin Williamson, Texas' Three-Legged Willie.
Austin, Texas State Historical Association, 1948.

Rose, Victor M.
The Life and Services of General Ben McCulloch.
Philadelphia, Pictorial Bureau of the Press, 1888.

Saunders, Col. James Edmonds.
Early Settlers of Alabama.
New Orleans, L. Braham & Son, Ltd., 1899.

Seguin, Juan N.
Personal Memoirs.
1842.

Smithwick, Noah.
The Evolution of a State.
Austin, Gammel Book Co., 1900; Austin, The Steck Company, 1935.

Sowell, Andrew Jackson.
Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas.
Austin, Ben C. Jones & Co., 1900.

        
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Rangers and Pioneers of Texas: With a Concise Account of the Early Settlements, Hardships, Massacres, Battles and Wars, by Which Texas was Rescued from the Rule of the Savage and Consecrated to the Empire of Civilization.
San Antonio, Shepard Bros. & Co., 1884.

Tevis, Dean, and J. Holmes Jenkins.
Texana.
San Antonio, Naylor Company, 1936.

Thrall, Rev. Homer S.
A Pictorial History of Texas.
St. Louis, N. D. Thompson & Co., 1879.

Tyler, George W. (edited by Charles W. Ramsdell).
The History of Bell County.
San Antonio, Naylor Company, 1936.

Wade, Houston.
Notes and Fragments of the Mier Expedition.
La Grange, Texas, La Grange Journal, 1937, 2 vols.

Webb, Walter Prescott.
The Texas Rangers.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935.

        
, and H. Bailey Carroll (eds.).
The Handbook of Texas.
Austin, The Texas State Historical Association, 1952. 2 vols.

Weyand, Leonie L., and Houston Wade.
An Early History of Fayette County.
La Grange, Texas, La Grange Journal, 1936.

Wharton, Clarence R.
San Jacinto, the Sixteenth Decisive Battle.
Houston, Lamar Book Store, 1930.

        
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Wharton's History of Fort Bend County.
San Antonio, Naylor Company, 1939.

Wilbarger, J. W.
Indian Depredations in Texas.
Austin, Hutchings Printing House, 1889; Austin, The Steck Company, 1935.

Williams, Amelia W., and Eugene C. Barker (eds.).
The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813–1863.
Austin, University of Texas Press, 1938. 8 vols.

Wooten, Dudley G. (ed.).
A Comprehensive History of Texas, 1685–1897.
Dallas, William G. Scarff, 1898. 2 vols.

Yoakum, H. K.
History of Texas.
New York, Redfield, 1855. 2 vols.

Newspapers

Advertiser,
Bastrop, Texas, 1884–1890, 1897, 1935, 1956.

American,
Austin, Texas, 1939.

City Gazette,
Austin, Texas, 1841, 1842.

Daily Telegram,
Temple, Texas, 1936.

Herald,
Halletsville, Texas, 1907.

Morning Star,
Houston, Texas, 1839.

News,
Galveston, Texas, 1857.

Northern Standard,
Clarksville, Texas, 1842, 1846.

Telegraph and Texas Register,
Houston, Texas, 1835, 1839, 1840, 1842, 1844.

Texas Gazette,
San Felipe de Austin, Texas, 1830.

Texas National Register,
Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, 1845.

Texas Sentinel,
Austin, Texas, 1840.

Periodicals

Alexander, E. H. “Amos Alexander and Son Killed by Indians,”
Frontier Times,
IV.

Bacarisse, Charles A. “Baron de Bastrop,”
Southwestern Historical Quarterly,
LVIII.

Barker, Eugene C. “Minutes of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin,”
Southwestern Historical Quarterly,
XXIII.

Bastrop Historical Society. “Counties Embracing Area Once Large as States,”
In the Shadow of the Lost Pines,
21.

Bugbee, Lester G. “The Old Three Hundred,”
Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association,
I.

Erskine, Blucher. “Andrew N. Erskine,”
Frontier Times,
IV.

Fitzwilliam, Grace. “Early Election Held in Bastrop in 1831,”
In the Shadow of the Lost Pines,
42.

        
. “From Bastrop to Mina to Bastrop, 1832–1837,”
ibid.,
41.

Gunn, Jack Winton. “Ben McCulloch, A Big Captain,”
Southwestern Historical Quarterly,
LVIII.

Morgan, H. L. “John Day Morgan,”
Frontier Times,
IV.

Rabb, John. “Story of an Indian Experience in the Early Settlement of Texas,”
Texas Monument,
August 27, 1841.

Roberts, D. W. “The Restoration of Warren Lyons,”
Frontier Times,
IV.

Smither, Harriet. “The Alabama Indians of Texas,”
Southwestern Historical Quarterly,
XXXVI.

Sowell, A. J. “Colonel Rip Ford and His Rangers Battle with Indians,”
Frontier Times,
IV.

Terrell, Alexander W. “The City of Austin from 1839 to 1865,”
Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association,
XIV.

Traylor, Maude Wallis, “Benjamin Franklin Highsmith,”
Frontier Times,
XV.

        
. “Captain Samuel Highsmith, Ranger,”
ibid.,
XVII.

Williams, Amelia. “A Critical Study of the Siege of the Alamo and of the Personnel of its Defenders,”
Southwestern Historical Quarterly,
XXXVII.

Winkler, E. W. “The Cherokee Indians in Texas,”
Quarterly of the Southwestern Historical Association,
VII.

Theses

Benavides, Ilma M. “General Woll's Invasion of San Antonio in 1842.” Master's Thesis, University of Texas, 1952.

Blake, Gertrude Burleson. “The Public Career of General Hugh McLeod.” Master's Thesis, University of Texas, 1932.

Boethal, Carl. “History of Lavaca County, 1685–1930.” Master's Thesis, University of Texas, 1932.

Goldman, Pauline Scott. “Letters from Three Members of Terry's Rangers, 1861 to 1865.” Master's Thesis, University of Texas, 1930.

Hardy, Aloise Walker. “A History of Travis County, 1832–1865.” Master's Thesis, University of Texas, 1938.